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Applications Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

by Ted Hanss, Internet2 Director for Applications Development

Q. What do you consider to be "Internet2 Applications"?

A. These are applications that can make a difference in how we engage in teaching, learning, and research in higher education. Internet2 applications require advanced networks. That is, these applications will not run across commercial Internet connections. Internet2 applications require enhanced networking functionality—such as high bandwidth, low latency (delay), or multicast—not available on our commercial Internet connections.

Q. What disciplines do these applications focus on?

A. Internet2 is about everything we do in higher education. Therefore, we encourage and support applications development in all disciplines from the sciences through arts and humanities. Whether you're in the classroom, the laboratory, the library, or the dorm, you should be able to access Internet applications that provide benefit.

Q. How do I find out what other applications developers are doing?

A. Check out the applications we highlight on the Internet2 applications web site (http://apps.internet2.edu). For a more comprehensive collection of illustrative applications, check out the database maintained by the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research at http://dast.nlanr.net/Clearinghouse/Query.htm . If you still don't find what you're looking for, contact Internet2 Director for Applications Development, Ted Hanss, ted@internet2.edu and ask.

Q. What's the "killer app" for Internet2?

A. The fun thing about participating in Internet2 is working with all the creative minds who are working to create the next generation of applications. But, there's no way to tell what the "killer app," if any, might be. Instead, we like to describe four killer attributes that you'll find in the most compelling applications.

Q. No, really, what's the "killer app"?

A. Well, the area that will provide the widest benefit and largest aggregate use of the Internet2 network capacity is digital video. Video-based applications cover everything from video conferencing to on-demand content to remote control of microscopes and other instruments.

Applications

File Transfer

Collaboration

Digital Libraries - Very high bandwidth and bandwidth reservation will allow currently exotic materials such as continuous digital video and audio to move from research use to much broader use. Images, audio and video can, at least from a delivery point of view, move into the mainstream currently occupied almost exclusively by textual materials. Here is the Digital Libraries Initiative Phase2 from NSF. The Open Video Project is a shared digital video repository and test collection intended to meet the needs of researchers in a wide variety of areas related to digital video

Application Sharing - You and your colleagues, within the same location or across the world can look at the same document, spreadsheet, or other application and work on it together. Example software includes Microsoft NetMeeting,  Timbuktu Pro for Windows and Macintosh and SGImeeting. Meeting by Wire is a service providing information, tips and rumors about products that support distance meetings and conferences with emphasis on Microsoft's NetMeeting and XP's Windows Messenger. Another NetMeeting resource is NetMeetingHQ. Remote control software such as pcAnywhere has been around for a while but now can be applied to the Internet. Public domain remote control software called Virtual Network Computing is also available. Here is the Guide to Distributed PowerPoint.

Remote Instrumentation - Don't have a synchotron, MRI scanner, or super-computer? Use the Internet2 to remotely access and control expensive instruments in someone else's lab. Here are some examples:
    - Interactive Robotic Museum (Internet1)
    - The Public 8 Ball (Internet1)
    - Online Interactive Chaotic Pendulum (Internet1)
    - Remote Access Astronomy Project
    - Dropball Online Physics Experiment New

Smart Instruments - Enhance the power of scientific instruments by providing access to data archives and on-line processing capabilities. The X-ray CMT application uses Globus to couple Argonne's Advanced Photon Source to a supercomputer in order to perform sophisticated on-line processing and interactive visualization.

Applications Examples

Specific Application Areas

Related Resources

Internet2 Applications - http://apps.internet2.edu

Advanced Networked Applications: Campus Development & Deployment: PPT and HTML

The Internet2 Applications Database contains information about applications that have been developed by Internet2 members.

Great Plains Network (AR/KS/NE/ND/OK/SD/MO) is very involved in collaborative projects.
 

WSU Applications

The WSU Internet2 Grant Application to the NSF featured these local research efforts:

Kansas – Biomedical Research Infrastructure Networks (KBRIN). David McDonald, Department of Biology, Wichita State University; William Hendry, Department of Biology, Wichita State University; Joan Hunt, Project Director, University of Kansas Medical Center; R. Denell, Kansas State University; M. Madden, Ft. Hays State University; & R. Hanzlik, University of Kansas. The Kansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN) project has been recently funded by a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the development of statewide resources required for performing frontline biomedical research. The project is designed to address two key elements with the goals of enhancing biomedical research in the State of Kansas: Recruiting and training promising students and increasing and strengthening the cadre of competitive biomedical researchers. The transition from the first element to the second is facilitated by initiating methods for improving communications and interactions among researchers and their trainees.

Quantum Neural Networks. Elizabeth C. Behrman, Department of Physics, Wichita State University; James E. Steck, Aerospace Engineering, Wichita State University; and Steven R. Skinner, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wichita State University are beginning a collaboration in quantum computing with Siyuan Han, Department of Physics, University of Kansas, and Dan Ventura, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, toward responding to the NSF request for proposals in the Quantum and Biologically Inspired Computing (QuBIC) program.  Drs. Behrman, Steck and Skinner, working with Dr. Ventura, will be extending their current theoretical and computational work on quantum neural networks which will be modified for and implemented on the SQuID system by adapting the experimental work on SQuID hardware by Dr. Han. Behrman, Steck and Skinner’s work on quantum neural networks is currently funded by the NSF and Han’s experimental work on SQuIDs is currently funded under a DEPSCoR grant.   Broadband communications including real time audio and video would be indispensable for exchanging data, allowing the WSU team to be virtually present to observe the experiments at KU, and allow video conferencing during weekly research meetings with the investigators and the graduate students working on the project at both campuses.

Molecular Modeling of Ionic Liquids. W. Robert Carper, Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University and Cynthia K. Larive, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas. The overall objective of this research is to provide a molecular level of understanding of the physical interactions that occur in ionic liquids. This includes interactions that occur between the ionic liquid ion pairs. In addition, the interactions that occur between catalysts and substrates will also be studied. The molecular modeling requires the use of Gaussian 98 (program) to do ab initio and DFT (density functional theory) calculations. The input for these calculations comes from semi-empirical calculations using AM1 and PM3 methods. The ab initio calculations uses 3-21G*, 6-31G* and 6-31G** basis sets to evaluate the models. The theoretical results are compared with experimental data obtained from NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) experiments. It is essential that high speed communication is available for this collaboration so that we can examine and update calculations from both locations in a very short time frame.

Collaborative Design Techniques for Integrated Product Development. Krishna Kumar Krishnan, Dept. of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Wichita State University; S. Hossein Cheraghi, Dept. of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Wichita State University; and Warren Liao, Louisiana State University. This project aims to develop a proof-of-concept for collaborative product design using collaborative product commerce (CPC) systems. The system to be developed will use existing product lines at local aircraft industries to demonstrate collaborative design approaches for aerospace components using Design for Manufacturability techniques. A demonstration of the proof of concept will be made to aircraft industries to help promote the concept of collaborative design and the use of CPC software systems. The feasibility of integrating collaborative design approaches with engineering and manufacturing business processes will also be pursued. The proof-of-concept will also demonstrate cost savings that can be achieved by using these techniques through the improvement of part standardization and quality, reduction of cost and reduction of product development and fabrication times. The metrics that will be used to validate the system would be reduction in cycle-time, and number of iterations. Cost savings will also be included, although, the impact can be measured much more easily using the other two criteria. Faster access to data and multi-casting are vital to the success of this project. It uses digital libraries, with multiple revision capabilities required.

Low Temperature Astrophysics. David Alexander, Jason Ferguson, Department of Physics, Wichita State University; Collaborators (one per school) include Tom Cravens at U. of Kansas, Jorge Ballester at Emporia State U., Bill Reay at Kansas State U., Peter Hauschildt at U. of Georgia-Athens, & France Allard at Ecole Normale Superieure-Lyon. Computational low temperature astrophysics research at WSU is focused on modeling the opacity of molecules and small particles and understanding the atmospheric structure and spectra of cool stars. Objects of interest include red giant stars, lower main sequence stars, brown dwarfs, extra-solar giant planets, and the narrow-line regions of active galaxies. The Low Temperature Astrophysics in Galactic Environments (LOTAGE) consortium which Alexander leads involves ten collaborators at five colleges and universities in Kansas interested in astrophysics at low temperatures. Network needs include software and data management and distribution between WSU, U. of Georgia-Athens, and ENS-Lyon, as well as videoconferencing among collaborators distributed over a wide geographic region.

In addition, the following Internet2 projects are also active at WSU:

Finally, the following projects received WSU Internet2 mini-grants:

 

WSU Video Conferencing

WSU Webcasts

Either RealVideo or MS Windows Media Player is usually needed to view them.

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* Note that Windows Media Player 6.4 will be able to view all content. If you have Windows Media Player 7 installed and wish to view the high bandwidth  MPEG-2 video OnDemand files, and, you'll need to first rightclick the stream of your choice and select "Save Target As...". Choose a location to save the file, and then doubleclick the following file:

C:/Program Files/Windows Media Player/mplayer2.exe

and use the Open command in the File menu to open the file you just saved. If this does not work, choose a speed slower then Internet2. T1/LAN speed works quite well when it is available.

 

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